: The film uses "Ben-Day dots," half-toning, and hatching to create shadows and gradients.

The film centers on , a Brooklyn teenager struggling to meet the high expectations of his father while navigating a new elite boarding school. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Miles witnesses the death of his universe's Peter Parker at the hands of the Kingpin .

: Traditional digital blurs were replaced with "CMYK offsetting" and hand-drawn speed lines to maintain clarity in every frame.

: A literal cartoon pig with classic "funny animal" physics.

Critics and audiences universally acclaimed the film's , which intentionally rejects standard CG photorealism in favor of a "living comic book" aesthetic. Key techniques used by Sony Pictures Imageworks include:

: Most characters are animated at 12 frames per second (rather than 24) to create a punchy, stepped feel reminiscent of turning comic pages.

: Artists deliberately included "misprints" and rough line work to mimic the feel of hand-drawn art. Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse